The Fix

Whispering pills remember Where people and love fail Lingering in shots and hits that filter That leave body and mind deranged and frail Comes about in random trysts Posing for love though suddenly betrayed This fascination one has to forget To go numb makes them dumb with age Carries you out on bricks On knees one crawls for a day The pain wrenching and hunching back Leaving knots in stomach and so begins the first stages of pain Just once more to remember, to feel again in one's purest of states To feel as if one knows how to feel- To love beyond the lure of a pill The sanctuary that only a synthetic lover can create.